thats c:\windows\hosts.sam isn't it?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
> 
> >    Okay, I made my Win 2000  trouble go away by
> > removing proxy settings in NetscRape and signing on to
> > the Internet through my ISP.  Now everything works
> > fine.  The question I have still, however, is:  how
> > can I avoid this?  I should not have to tie up my
> > phone line just to use Tomcat on my PC.  That's silly.
> >  How can I get around this please? Thanks.
> > 
> 
> What solved the last of my disconnected-laptop issues (on Win98 at least)  
> was adding a LOCALHOST entry in "c:\windows\hosts" (create it if needed):
> 
>   127.0.0.1 localhost
> 
> Win98 looks here first before it tries accessing your configured DNS
> servers, which is when it would try to access the network.
> 
> > Ken
> > 
> 
> Craig
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